Pachuco

Sometimes a person considered a pachuco was called a chuco.

They turned, raised their hands: a pachuco punk, a pretty girl maybe six months pregnant.

She used the pachuco slang for being high on dope.

I put a bit of pachuco Canal Street slang talking.

The pachuco fondled the religious medals around his neck, looking bewildered.

Another kid put the pachuco mark behind my ear; most guys got it on their hand, here, between the fingers so it doesn't show.

The song "Pachuco" is a studio recording that was released as a single to promote the album.

Some social scientists believe that the pachuco cross was meant to symbolize violence and membership in a gang.

The pachuco subculture declined in the 1960s, evolving into the Chicano style.

Supposedly they were very streetwise and liked to hang out with their pachuco boyfriends.

Expressions and vocabulary used by Chicanos today come from the pachuco argot of the 1940s.

Pachucas knew the vernacular of the times, speaking pachuco and scandalizing their families.

It is the product of zoot-suit pachuco culture.

Their first record, I bet you love us too, released through Hey, Pachuco!

A pachuco passion job, pure and simple.

Some consider pachuco and its pachuquísmos to be Costa Rica's second language.

Haldeen Braddy discusses the origin of the word pachuco, providing several theories.

They suspected that rival Pachuco gang fights were the cause of Diaz's death.

He also dressed as a pachuco.

Fritzie pulled out a pachuco toad stabber and popped the blade.

It is thought the word pachuco was a colloquial way of referring to El Paso.

The pachuco argot utilized several linguistic sources in developing a vocabulary or jargon.

A group of Mexicans with a bereaved-family look was standing by the loading ramp staring in; a pachuco type stared at him extra hard.

He was an actor and performer who dressed as a stereotypical pachuco and zoot-suiter.

He introduced the Pachuco dress and slang throughout his Golden age-era films.